writing an email.message.Message in UTF-8

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-12-07, Adam Funk wrote:

> I'm trying to write an instance of email.message.Message, whose body
> contains unicode characters, to a UTF-8 file.  (Python 2.7.3 & 2.7.10
> again.)
>
>     reply = email.message.Message()
>     reply.set_charset('utf-8')
>     ... # set various headers
>     reply.set_payload('\n'.join(body_lines) + '\n')

I've also tried changing that to
     reply.set_payload('\n'.join(body_lines) + '\n', 'utf-8')
but I get the same error on output.

>     ...
>     outfile = codecs.open(outfilename, 'w', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore')
>     outfile.write(reply.as_string())
>     outfile.close()
>
> Then reply.as_string() barfs a UnicodeDecodeError.  I look in the
> documentation, which says the generator is better.  So I replace the
> outfile.write(...) line with the following:
>
>     g = email.generator.Generator(outfile, mangle_from_=False)
>     g.flatten(reply)
>
> which still barfs a UnicodeDecodeError.  Looking closer at the first
> error, I see that the exception was in g.flatten(...) already & thrown
> up to reply.as_string().  How can I force the thing to do UTF-8
> output?
>
> Thanks.
>
>


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